Friday, 11 September 2015

Nightmare Before Christmas Sheet Music


In 1993, an American stop motion musical fantasy film named ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas became famous. This film invented and produced by Tim Burton, and directed by Henry Selick. This film describes a story of Jack Skellington, who decides to celebrate his holiday by opening a doorway to ‘Christmas Town’ from ‘Halloween Town’, with some immoral and laughable ramification. The film score wrote by Danny Elfman and also supplied the singing voice of Jack and for a number of small characters. The other voice casts were Catherine, Chris Sarandon, William Hickey, O’Hara, Glenn Shadix, Ken Page and Paul Reubens. Originally, Tim Burton wrote ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ in a poem in 1982 and he also worked as an animator for Walt Disney.

After a great success of Vincent, the Walt Disney Studio also developed ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’, a 30 minute TV special film in the same year. This film re-released as Disney Digital 3-D for the time period of 2006-2009 and considered as the first stop motion animated film completely converted into 3-D. Danny Elfman has introduced Nightmare Before Christmas Sheet Music formedium players including piano, vocal, and guitar songbook with vocal melody, piano complement, lyrics, chord names and diagrams for guitar chord. This sheet music was published by Hal Leonard. There is a number of Nightmare before Christmas sheet music available online such as Concert Band (Score & Parts) - Grade 3, composed by Danny Elfman, arranged by Michael Brown and published by Hal Leonard. Choral (2-Part) composed by Danny Elfman, arranged by Alan Billingsley and published by Hal Leonard.

Charlie Brown Christmas Sheet Music

The first prime-time animated TV special and most beloved ‘peanuts’ characters which was based upon Charles Schulz was named as ‘Charlie Brown Christmas’ in the year 1965. It was broadcasted from the USA on every Christmas season. The two most beloved pieces were arranged by Sylvia Woods, Linus & Lucy and Christmas Time is Here. The most interesting thing is that both are included in the same music sheet. Both of them can be played by using lever or pedal harp. It needs a lot of sharpness lever changes in the music for arranging both of them. These are basically for expert players, it includes lyrics, fingering, symbols, chord and lever & pedal changes.



The Guaraldi Trio’s album included Linus & Lucy in 1964 in ‘Jazz impressions of a Boy named Charlie Brown’, and then used in a special TV program ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’. A large number of Charlie Brown Christmas Sheet Music is available online. This sheet music includes two 2-page arrangements of Christmas Time Is Here and two 2-page arrangements of Linus and Lucy. The most famous composer is Vince Guaraldi, Chord names and illustrations, Piano Solo Songbook composed by Vince Guaraldi and published by Hal Leonard. The deluxe collection is also available of all ten most famous Vince Guaraldi arrangements includes Christmas is coming, Fur Elise, Christmas Time Is Here, Hark, The Herald Angels Sing, My Little Drum, Linus and Lucy, Skating, What Child Is This, and O Tannenbaum.